The BIOAg Project, aimed at helping counties monitor and report compliance in helping riparian, streamside, or ecosystems. “The state’s program is really a bottom-up approach, where the state encourages local stewardship to improve riparian areas and monitor them,” said Alexander Fremier, an associate professor in WSU’s School of the Environment (SOE). “Stakeholders, including counties, districts, or landowners, propose areas that they can help improve, then monitor the results of their actions.” Associate Professor Alexandra Fremier used publicly available data from satellites and a new program called Google Earth Engine to monitor the riparian regions. “Google created a platform to access satellite imagery from the entire globe,” Fremier said. “We can start to analyze those images in real-time using simple computer code.”